Alex Reece
Engineering Manager at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Reece is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience building and operating distributed systems and data platforms, now leading OpenAI’s Hosted Engines team to deliver inference at scale. He has a strong track record at major cloud and consumer companies (Google, Twitter, Roblox, Streamlit) driving latency and reliability improvements, launching SaaS products, and aligning cross-org roadmaps across 40+ person initiatives. Alex has repeatedly hired and developed senior technical talent—directly coaching principal and senior staff engineers, growing managers, and improving diversity through structured interviewing and onboarding. He combines deep systems-level experience (ZFS, databases, real-time systems) with operational rigor, having created incident response, KPI, and post-mortem practices that scaled org-wide. Quietly competitive, he’s comfortable both shipping product-driven revenue gains and diving into low-level performance debugging. Based in San Francisco, he pairs academic CS foundations from Carnegie Mellon with practical leadership that moves complex, cross-functional projects to measurable outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Winter Park High SchoolBS Computer Science and Mathematics, BS Computer Science and Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (169)
programming-language10
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streamlit10
trace10
golang10
netbsd10
flamegraph10
node-gyp10
cpu10
go10
performance-tuning10
visualizer10
minikube10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
awreece/pdfcrack-opencl
Dec 2012 - Jul 2013
Contributions:61 commits in 7 months
memsql/dbbench
Jun 2015 - Aug 2016
Database Benchmark Tool
Contributions:7 reviews, 64 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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